I´ve been in Houston and El Paso in winter and it´s not what I would call even semi-tropical. When I lived in L.A. and was on the Republican County Central Committee, I was absent almost every January meeting with tthe cold and the rain. As much I love politics, a hot dinner and a warm blanket was just a little bit more attractive.

Regards,
Peter H.

Good Luck!

Barak Obama instead of studying LIncoln, should study Reagan, who said, ¨when you put a big tax on something, the people will produce less of it. So we cut the people´s tax and the people produced more than ever before.¨

There are so many wonderful quotes by Reagan but one of my favorites is ¨We have long discovered that nothing last longer than a temporary government program.¨

Happy Birthday Ronald Reagan. (The greatest president of the twentieth century)

http://www.therightbrothers.com has a song about President Reagan, quite touching.

We need a new conservative movement similar to that Mr. Reagan led. Where is our next President Reagan… he or she better emerge this next election cycle or we are doomed.

We’ve chosen the socialism and peace at all cost with this bunch in office now advocates and I don’t see it getting any better either.

The liberals are corrupting our children through their left wing publications right under our noses. I was talking with my sister-in-law (near Pittsburgh) on the phone the other day and in our discussion I brought up that I saw General Petraeus at MacDill Airbase. She asked “who is that?” I was in shock that she didn’t know but she asked her husband (my brother), their son (11 year old) & her mother who was visiting and they all knew who he was & I was feeling a bit better. However the 11 year old added more shock to my initial dismay by adding “yeah, General Betray Us.”

I asked her to find out where he heard that statement. She asked and he said it was “TIME for Kids” he looked at in school. What is an ad like this doing in a child’s magazine other than to indoctrinate?

I can help set my nephew right, but we are in a war for the hearts & minds our own youth. God help us.

“I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there’s purpose and worth to each and every life.” -Reagan

However, I was raised in a household with conservative values. We weren’t rich. Sometimes we were broke but my parents never took a dime in public assistance, even when there were times when we could have used the extra money. Sometimes I’d ask my parents why they never accepted the public assistance even though they were eligible for it. They’d always respond the same way: “Son, my grandfather lived in a slum that had no running water. Your mother didn’t have her first pair of shoes until she was 12 back in her village. The leeches in our neighborhood who claim poverty haven’t the foggiest idea what the word means. Besides, it’s not the government’s job to protect us from poverty. Its job is to keep our borders safe, protect the nation’s currency, and keep interstate commerce flowing. Anything else is too much.
“The Preamble clearly states the federal government’s role to PROMOTE, not provide, the general welfare. Besides, handouts are for the poor. We are broke every now and then. But remember that being broke is a temporary state. Being poor is perpetual state of mind. We have the right to prosper as well as fall on our face. President Reagan understands that. He wants us to succeed. He wants kids like you to succeed. And your success will make America great.
“The last thing we need is Mondale telling us if we’re making too much or too little money and how he’s going to make it all better for us. ”

My dad went on to become a successful scientific instruments engineer and is living very comfortably off the fruits of his labor in the Florida Keys. I’m still pluggin’ and chuggin’ to get to the promised land.

I was proud of President Reagan when the rest of my peers were convinced he was a senile buffoon. Even atheists declared him Satan on earth. Never mind politics, they blamed Reagan for every woe in their lives. Noam Chomsky declared the Reagan years “the darkest age of human existence.” Nevertheless, I liked him. Always did. He made me happy and proud to be an American. To date, he is my favorite President in my lifetime.

I miss him. Happy B-Day Ronny!!!

This address was right before his Alzheimer’s became publicly known, and I count myself fortunate that I was able to see him in person, in his prime, before his descent into illness. That image and that speech will stay with me to my dying day.

Regards,
Peter H.